Misuse of Social Medias Can Threaten Company Networks
Posted in NetFlow Analyzer, Network Traffic Monitor, Scrutinizer, Security on August 9th, 2010 by Angela
Has your company adopted a social media policy yet? Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace are increasingly being considered threats for at least a couple big reasons: security risks and traffic risks.
Use of social medias at work can pose security risks to the company’s intellectual property through an employee’s personal communication habits. On occasion, attackers assume the identity of someone who hasn’t actually joined sites like facebook. Then the attacker determines who this person’s friends or schoolmates are and sends friend requests. Once befriended, the attacker has personal information of users and can make targeted attacks. Social engineering tactics like this can be very effective, especially when they get users to start sharing URLs leading to malicious sites or spoofs of actual businesses such as your local bank. In some countries, criminals are not banned from using sites like facebook when they are incarcerated, as The Washington Times recently reported.
Use of social medias at work can also pose network traffic problems for the company. Read more »




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